Neilton, WA
Neilton, WA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Neilton at the 27th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 262 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Neilton at the 27th percentile, close to its 27th-percentile risk score.
Neilton's building exposure, zone by zone
100% of Neilton's 262 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 262 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 0% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
How Neilton compares
Within Washington, Neilton ranks higher (45th percentile) than it does nationally (27th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Neilton ranks 23,082 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,795 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 347 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Neilton
Neilton's moderate rating (27th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Neilton's 100% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Neilton's 23,082-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Neilton, see the exposure-zones guide.